Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Dr. Anthony Hector Desloges, Montreal psychiatrist, declared that, in his opinion, the whole world would be mentally deranged by 1948 if no change occurred in the general trend of mental hygiene. Last week Psychiatrist Desloges, 58, chief of the division of social hygiene for the Province of Quebec, president of the Provincial committee on mental hygiene, solemnly stated that Society has already reached a stage of general madness. Said he: "There is more insanity outside of the hospitals than inside...
...Patrolman John Shannon arrested two men as "Reds" when he heard them argue about it. In Roseland, Manhattan dance hall, a new dance was named after it. In Chicago was formed the Technocratic Party of the U. S., sponsored by the sponsors of the Anti-Rodeo League and the Mental Patients Defenders' Association. But more importantly...
...Economic History of the United States," on Tuesday's at 3 o'clock, while Robinson, speaking on Wednesdays at 3 o'clock, will take as its subject "Appreciation of Art." Besides these two courses, lectures will be given by various Boston authorities on advertising, business law, current events, mental hygiene, psychology, and science and civilization...
...reading this estimate of Hemingway's personal import, there arise the old questions as to just how multi importance is to be attached a literary work as indication of the mental processes of a class. But even admitting the significance of the author of "A Farewell to Arms" in this respect, there is a further doubt. If the members of the present college generation confess themselves truly pictured by Hemingway, and, as Fadiman says, "as vitally maimed as the hero of The Sun Also Rise," they confess themselves beaten, not by the war, with which they had no direct contact...
...that now prevalent in American Graduate Schools. The founders are mindful that the scholastic drudgery necessitated by the Ph.D. is harmful to brilliant minds, not only in dulling their appreciation for originality, but in delaying the action of that originality until three or four of their most significant mental years have been wasted in fruitless research. Against that influence, the Fellows will be guarded by a restriction which denies them any course credit; their work is to emphasize productive originality, and they are to be stimulated thereto by contact with each other and with the University's most brilliant minds...